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THE YEARS 



1914 TO 1923 



IN 



BIBLE PROPHECY 



SCRIPTURE PREDICTION OF 



THE PRESENT WAR 



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T. TROWARD 

(Author of " Bible Mastery, " " Edinburgh Lecturti on Mental 
Science, " &c). 



SCHCX:)L OF THE BUlLDtlRS 

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THE YEARS 



1914 TO 1923 



IN 



BIBLE PROPHECY. 

SCRIPTURE PREDICTION OF 

THE PRESENT WAR 



BY 



Tr TROWARD 

(Author of "Bible Mastery, " "Edinburgh Lectures on Mental 
Science," &c). 



SCHOOL OF THE BUILDERS 

150 West 78th Street 

NEW YORK 

STEAD. DANBY & Co. 

1 1 a. Church Street, Kensington 

LONDON 



[Copyright 1915 by T. Troward.] 



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NOTE—rAe reader is particularly requested to look up the various texts 
referred to, as their insertion would unduly extend this pamphlet. 



In the present pamphlet I have endeavoured to 
put before the reader in the smallest possible 
space certain clues to the prophetic utterances 
of the Bible showing that we are now living in 
that Time of the End to which they refer. This 
does not mean the end of the world, the end of 
the planet, concerning which we have no indi- 
cation, but the E^d of the Age, that is the ter- 
mination of the present order of things and 
the introduction of that New Order to which 
the whole of Scripture leads up. 

The war now waging, which is without par- 
allel in all history, is not a mere struggle for 
national precedence, it is a conflict of princi- 
ples. It is a conflict between the principle of 



liberty on the one hand, leading on to individ- 
ual development, international peace, and the 
expansion of natural resources beyond any- 
thing hitherto realized, and the principle of des- 
potism which must retard the progress of hu- 
manity for many generations, and as the great 
war of principles it forms the climax of the Old 
Order and is the worthy subject of prophecy. 
If there is such a thing as a Supreme Intelli- 
gence/ taking cognizance of the affairs of men 
it must see things primarily from the point of 
view of principles whether on the scale of indi- 
viduals or of nations — it must see things first 
in the realm of spiritual causation, and then as 
a consequence see the working-out of these 
causes on the plane of material effects. Phil- 
osophically this would be the attitude of such 
an Intelligence as it looked down the ages of 
human evolution, an evolution rather of mind 
than of body; and if such a Supreme Intelli- 
gence gave utterance to what it thus saw, that 
utterance would be what we call prophecy. Now 
this is exactly what the Bible claims for the 
Divine Mind, and if we find these utterances 
paralleled by corresponding events we can only 
conclude that the men who recorded them 
spoke by Divine inspiration. And there is a 
personal interest for us in the subject, for on 
investigation it will be found that, while cer- 
tain prophetic periods have already elapsed 



and been accompanied by corresponding events 
at the times indicated, the period of other pre- 
dictions is due, by the same method of calcula- 
tion, to run out at the present time; and the 
knowledge that the tremendous events now 
transpiring are being utilized by the Divine 
guidance for the ultimate establishing of peace 
and prosperity for all mankind will give us a 
firm foundation of hope in the hour of conflict 
and trial. 

One marked feature of the Bible prophecies 
is their definiteness in regard to time. They 
make definite statements of the reign and year 
in which they were uttered, and when we know 
their scale of measurement they will be found 
to give equally definite statements as to the pe- 
riod of their fulfilment, and it is to this Time 
element I particularly wish to draw attention in 
this pamphlet, for it will be, found that these 
prophecies clearly indicate the years 1914 to 
1923 as a period of transition from an order of 
things which is passing away to a new and bet- 
ter order. It is not improbable that some of the 
prophecies extend still further, but it is to this 
particular period I would draw attention, for 
th^ events connected with it are now happen- 
ing around us and we are personally concerned 
with them. 

Before entering upon the consideration of 
particular events and dates I wish to point out 



three clues to the subject. In Genesis i. 14 we 
are told that God appointed the Sun and Moon 
^^foi^ signs and for seasons and for days and 
for years/' and we shall find that all the pro- 
phetic periods are measured by the combined 
movements of these two luminaries. This dis- 
tinguishes the predictions of the Bible from 
those of astrology. There is no mention of any 
of the planets, and the events themselves are in 
no way attributed to the influence of the sun and 
moon ; they simply measure, like the two hands 
of a clock, the lapse of the periods foretold. 

The second point is that a great Septenary 
Law pervades all these periods — a Law of 
Sevens measuring time by ** Weeks.*' The 
units may be years or centuries, but they al- 
ways fall into groups of '* weeks" or **half 
weeks'' of such units. The same law is found 
to obtain throughout all Nature in the various 
physiological functions of insects, animals, and 
man ; but as I want to be as brief as possible I 
only mention this as one indication among 
others that the Bible prophecies are the utter- 
ances of the same All-Creating Spirit from 
which Nature on every plane proceeds. 

The third point is the scale by which the pro- 
phetic periods are to be measured. It is a min- 
iature scale like that of a map, and by its use 
we can realise our whereabouts in the chrono- 
logical order of events. The Bible states this 



scale plainly in two passages, Numbers xiv. 34, 
and Ezekiel iv. 4-6 — it is a day for a year. 
With these three clues to guide us we may now 
look at the prophecies themselves. 

The principal chronological statements of 
prophetic periods occur in the books of Daniel 
and Revelations, and they deal with certain pe- 
riods of 2520 years, 2300 years, 1260 years, 
1335 years, and one short period of 41% years. 
These, then, are the periods we have to con- 
sider, always remembering that the whole Bible 
centres round its first prophecy of ''the seed of 
the woman, ' ' without which we lose the point of 
the whole Book. 

The first of these periods, 2520 years, is the 
duration of Gentile rule over Jerusalem, those 
' ' Times of the Gentiles ^ ^ spoken of by Christ — 
*' Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gen- 
tiles until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled. ^ ' 
(Luke xxi. 24.) This is a great ''week'' of 
seven days, each of which is a calendar year of 
360 days, each of these "days'' being itself a 
year of natural time, and thus we get the result 
360x7 — 2520. Half of this "week" is the 
celebrated period of 1260 days, forty-and-two 
months, or time, times, and a half so frequently 
occurring in Revelations, and also in Daniel 
xii. 5-9. 

The entire period of 2520 years, however, is 
nowhere expressly mentioned in so many 



words, but it is symbolically indicated in tbe 
duration of King Nebuchadnezzar 's loss of rea- 
son. (Dan. iv.) We may infer from the two 
preceding chapters that the king himself, as the 
golden head of the image seen by him in his 
vision, represented the entire succession of four 
Gentile empires which were to dominate Jeru- 
salem. The interpretation of his vision, instead 
of leading him to recognize the Divine over- 
ruling of human affairs, appears to have re- 
sulted in what, if I may be allowed to use an 
expressive colloquialism, we should now call 
''swelled head'' — attributing his power and 
glory to his own cleverness, and in representa- 
tion of his own greatness he set up the golden 
image, for refusing to bow down to which 
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego were cast 
into the fiery furnace; and his deprivation of 
reason appears to have been inflicted in order 
to convince him of his error. This is the con- 
nection between the three chapters. If, then, 
we regard Nebuchadnezzar as representing the 
whole succession of Gentile rulers, the period of 
his loss of reason represents the duration of 
their rule during which true reasoning based on 
recognition of the Divine nature has not been 
the ruling principle, but armed force and diplo- 
matic duplicity have taken its place. Seen in this 
light the ''seven times" of King Nebuchadnez- 
zar's loss of reason are the double of the "time, 



ti^es, and a half*' of prophecy, the equivalent 
of which the Bible itself gives as 1260 days. On 
this scale a ^'time'* is a calendar year consist- 
ing of twelve months of thirty days each, so 
that ^^ seven times'* amount to 2520 days, whicli 
on the prophetic scale above mentioned must 
be interpreted as 2520 years for the duration of 
the ^^ Times of the Gentiles.'* 

Now, 2520 is a remarkable number in itself, 
for it is the least common multiple of the first 
ten numerals; the first in the numerical series 
which is exactly divisible by all of them without 
remainder. Also in addition to the septiform 
character previously noted it has a remarkable 
character astronojmically, for during this period 
the solar year of 365 days gains on the lunar 
year of 354 days exactly 75 years ; and if we 
look at the concluding verses of the Book of 
Daniel we shall find that precisely this period 
is added as mysteriously supplementary to the 
entire prophetic * * week. ' * 

Now to test this prophetic **week" by the 
record of history, if we take this number of 
years, starting from an important point in the 
downfall of the Jewish monarchy, namely, the 
removal of King Jehoiachim from Jerusalem 
by Nebuchadnezzar, in B.C. 606, it brings us ex- 
actly to the present year, 1914. Or if we take 
the carrying away of the Ten Tribes to Assyria, 
in B.C. 676-7, as our starting-point, the same 



number of lunar years brings us to a most im- 
portant epoch in the downfall of Mahomedan 
power, namely, the year 1844, when the Sultan 
of Turkey was compelled by the Christian 
powers to pass an edict of religious toleration 
and rescind the law by which a convert from 
Islam to Christianity was liable to death. And 
in this connection it should be observed that as 
the Mahomedan calendar reckons by lunar 
years so all the prophecies relating to the 
Mahomedan power do the same. 

We shall have occasion to refer to this period 
of 2520 years again, but for the present we may 
turn to the prophecy of 2300 years contained in 
Daniel viii. 14. This refers, more particularly 
in regard to its latter portion, to the rise and 
fall of Mahomedan power ; which is symbolized 
by a '* little horn^' arising out of one of the 
four kingdoms into which the kingdoms of the 
'^he-goat*' is divided (verses 9 and 23). The 
Bible tells us that the ram seen by Daniel in his 
vision represents the Medo-Persian empire 
while the ^^ he-goat ^^ which overcomes him is 
the Grecian empire, and we know from history 
that the Medo-Persian empire was overthrown 
by Alexander the Great, who died at Babylon, 
B.C. 323. His empire was then divided between 
his four generals, Cassender, Lysimachus, 
Ptolemy, and Seleucus, the last of whom 
founded the line of the Seleucidae, who ruled 

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over Syria. Now we learn from Daniel vii. 24, 
and Rev. xii. 24 that a ''horn'* signifies a 
''king/' meaning a political ruling power. A 
"little horn'' taking the place of one of the 
four horns therefore signifies a political power 
arising from very small beginnings within the 
area of one of these four kingdoms, and the 
description in verse 9 indicates the geographi- 
cal direction of its expansion, and the fact that 
it will have possession of the Holy Land. As a 
matter of history, it was within the area occu- 
pied by the kingdom of the Seleucidae that 
Mahomed set up his standard and his religion, 
the small beginnings of which, and their subse- 
quent expansion exactly agree with the pro- 
phetic description. 

The prophecy of 2300 days, we are told, 
refers to the Desolation of the Sanctuary and 
the taking away of the daily sacrifice, but as 
this prophecy was given during the Babylonian 
Captivity when the daily sacrifice was in abey- 
ance, its renewal before the commencement of 
the period is necessarily implied, so that the 
earliest point we can take for calculation is the 
decree of Artaxerxes to restore and rebuild 
Jerusalem in B.C. 457. Now 2300 years from 
that date bring us once more to 1844, the criti- 
cal importance of which year, in the decay of 
Mahomedan power I have already pointed out. 

One of the most important dates in antiquity 



is the accession of Nabonassar, the first king 
of Babylon. It ranks with the first Olympiad 
in Grecian history and the A.U.C. in Roman 
history as a marked era for chronological pur- 
poses, and certain contemporary astronomical 
observations, confirmed by modern astron- 
omers, enable us to fix this date with remarkable 
precision. It was 26th February, 747 B.C. 
Now if we take this as our starting-point, and 
to the '^ half - week ^' or 1260 years we add the 
mysterious 75 supplementary years indicated 
in Daniel xii., which, as already stated, is the 
Epact of the 2520 years, this total of 1335 taken 
as lunar years from the accession of Nabonas- 
sar brings us to a remarkable epoch in the 
rise of the Mahomedan power — the birth of 
Maliomed in A.D. 570. 

Or, again, calculating from the overthrow of 
Judah by Nebuchadnezzar in the reign of 
Jehoiachim, B.C. 602, twelve hundred and sixty 
lunar years bring us to A.D. 622, the date of 
the ^^Hijra/' or so-called flisrht of Mahomed 
from Mecca to Medina where he was first pub- 
licly accepted as prince and prophet; and the 
Hijra is the date from which the Mahomedan 
era starts just as our's does from the birth of 
Christ. 

Then, if we take the Hijra as our starting 
point, 1260 lunar years bring us once again 

Note that in adding B.C. to A.D. dates, one year bas to be 
subtracted, 

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to that remarkable date in reference to the 
Moslem power, the year 1844. 

Once more, if we calculate 1260 lunar years 
from the burning of the temple by Nebuchad- 
nezzar in B.C. 587 we come to A.D. 637, when 
Jerusalem was captured by the Saracens, and 
the Mosque of Omar erected on the site of the 
temple, on which occasion Sempronius, then 
Bishop of Jerusalem, is reported to have said, 
''This is, indeed, the abomination of desolation 
spoken of by the prophet Daniel.'' 

This concurrence between the prophetic pe- 
riods and important critical points in the 
rise and decline of the power by which the 
Sanctuary is trodden down, is so marked by 
its wonderful reiteration that it cannot be 
attributed to mere chance. It is cumulative 
evidence which cannot be disposed of by any 
theory of simple coincidence, and therefore we 
may reasonably believe that the same pro- 
phetic power which has thus signally verified 
itself up to the present' time will do so in 
respect of dates still in the future. If then, we 
take the founding of the Kingdom of the 
Seleucidae, out of which this '* little horn'' arose, 
namely, the year 312 B.C., as our starting point, 
2300 lunar years bring us to 1919. What may 
be the exact event then to happen we cannot 
say, but in the light of already fulfilled pro- 
phecy we may well suppose that it will be one 



of marked importance — possibly the liberation 
of Jerusalem from 'Moslem rule as a prelimi- 
nary to the predicted return of the Jews to 
their own land. Events at any rate seem to be 
tending in that direction; for Turkey, which 
had no adequate political motive for entering 
into the present struggle has now done so under 
the influence of Germany, thus opening the way 
for the possibilities here suggested. 

The Ottoman power, however, is not the only 
* ' little horn ' ' spoken of in Scripture. A careful 
comparison of Daniel and Revelations will show 
that the little horn mentioned in Daniel vii. 8 
is not the same little horn mentioned in the next 
chapter. The latter proceeds as we have seen 
from among the four horns which arose on 
the breaking of the single horn of the Grecian 
'' he-goat,'^ while the other rises among the 
ten horns of the fourth beast of Daniel's vision 
corresponding to those of the dragon in Rev. 
xii. and xiii. Their periods also are different, 
the one exercising power for 2300 years and 
the other for *Hime, time, and the dividing of 
time'' or 1260 years. They have, however, 
certain features in conmion. Both are little 
horns arising from almost imperceptible begin- 
nings, and both are described in terms indica- 
tive of a temporal dominion based on the claim 
to spiritual power and a Divine commission? 
and in the pages of history we meet with just 

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two powers, and no others, which exactly 
answer to this description. These are Islam 
and the Papacy. Just as the former arose out 
of one of the four horns, so the latter took its 
rise in the fourth, or Roman, Empire, after its 
division into a number of separate kingdoms 
indicated by the ten toes of the image in Daniel 
ii. 41 and the ten horns in Daniel vii. 7 and 
Rev. xvii. 12. 

And here I would particularly ask the reader 
to note that I am not discussing the merits of 
Roman Catholism as a religion. It has pro- 
duced great and good men and women, and its 
adequacy for his own needs is a question which 
the individual must decide for himself. What 
we are here concerned with is the Time indica- 
tions of Scripture and their reference to these 
two systems in their historical aspect as exer- 
cising political dominion. Both are political 
systems based upon the allegation of a Divine 
commission; and if we realize that the commu- 
nion of the soul with God the great recognition 
that ''I and my Father are One,'' must by its 
very nature be a purely personal and spiritual 
matter, it must be clear that this personal 
spiritual recognition cannot be made the basis 
of temporal domination. The claim, therefore, 
to make the relation of the soul to God, a purely 
spiritual relation, the foundation of a political 
system, is an inversion of the truth; and it is 

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with the statement of their duration as worldly 
powers contained in the prophetic books that 
these two systems at present concern us. 

Turning, then, to the prophetic indications 
regarding the duration of the Papacy as a 
worldly political system, we find that 1260 years 
from the era of Nabonassar, which is that of 
the founding of the Babylonian Empire, we 
come to the year A.D. 514, which is that of the 
accession of Hormisdas to the Bishopric of 
Rome, whose episcopate is noteworthy in the 
rise of the Papal power for the claim which he 
made, prior to Justinian *s edict, of the suprem- 
acy of the Roman Bishop over all Christendom, 
a claim set for by the terms in which he with 
drew the excommunication of the Eastern 
Emperor and Patriarch. And, again, if w^ add 
the supplementary 75 years of the concluding- 
verses of Daniel we come to the accession of 
Gregory the Great, the Pope who, as all his- 
torians agree, did more to consolidate the 
political power of the Roman see than any 
other. 

Then if we calculate in like manner onwards 
from the date of various distinguishing points 
in the rise of the Papacy, we find that a period 
of 1260 years brings us a succession of corre- 
sponding critical points in the history of its 
decay as a political power. One of the most 
important dates in the history of the rise of the 

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Papal authority is that of the decree of the 
Emperor Justinian constituting the Bishop of 
Rome the head of all the churches. This was 
in A.D. 533, and 1260 years from that date 
bring us to 1793, the outbreak of the French 
Revolution, when France, which had in pre- 
vious generations been the staunchest sup- 
porter of the Popes, became openly infidel and 
placed a notorious actress, as representing the 
Goddess of Reason, upon the high altar of the 
Cathedral of Notre Dame to receive the official 
recognition of the representatives of the 
Republic. 

Another marked event in the development of 
the Roman hierarchy is the decree of the 
Emperor Phocas in A.D. 606 conceding to Pope 
Boniface III., not only the primacy over all the 
Western churches, but also over the Patriarch- 
ate of Constantinople and all the Eastern 
churches. This emperor died in 610. Now if 
we take the corresponding period 1260 years 
later, namely from 1866 to 1870, we find it 
marked by a succession of steps in the down- 
fall of the political power of the Church of 
Rome as follows. On 3rd July, 1866, at the 
battle of Sadowa, Prussia crushed Austria 
which had for centuries been the seat of the 
*^Holy Roman Empire,*' a sort of permanent 
alliance between the Imperial house of Austria 
and the Popes of Rome. In October of the 

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same year the Austrians were driven out of 
Venice by the Italians, and in November Victor 
Emanuel was crowned at Turin with the iron 
crown of the Kings of Lombardy, all these 
events tending greatly to weaken the prestige of 
the Papacy in its political aspect. In 1868 the 
Pope summoned a great (Ecumenical Council 
to meet at Rome in December, 1869, which it 
did, and on 18th July, 1870, decreed the Infalli- 
bility of the Pope. The very next day France 
declared war against Prussia with the result 
that Napoleon III. was defeated at Sedan on 
1st September. The French troops which had 
supported the authority of the Pope evacuated 
Rome on 21st August, and the Italian army 
entered the Papal States on 12th September, 
and Rome with its provinces was incorporated 
in the Kingdom of Italy by a royal decree on 
9th October, thus putting an end to the last 
vestiges of the temporal power of the Papacy 
just 1260 years from its assumption. 

These correspondences of successive dates in 
the rise and decline of the Papal authority with 
the prophetic interval of 1260 years appear to 
be something more than a mere coincidence, 
especially when they are paralled by a similar 
correspondence in the case of the Ottoman 
power, and we may therefore regard with some 
expectation the running out of 1260 years 
calculated from another marked point in the 

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Papal history. That is the year A.D. 663 when 
Pope Vitalian commanded the services of the 
church throughout Christendom to be cele- 
brated only in Latin, thus marking the Church 
of Rome as emphatically the Latin Church. 
Twelve hundred-and-sixty years from that date 
bring us to the year 1923, a date which, as will 
be presently seen, we also reach by other 
methods of calculation. 

This edict of Vitalian is remarkable as 
emphasising the Latinity of the Roman Church. 
In Rev. xiii. 18 we read, ^ ' Here is wisdom. Let 
him that hath understanding count the number 
of the beast : for it is the number of a man ; and 
his nu;mber is six hundred threescore and six. ' ^ 
We are here told that this is the number of a 
man, that is to say, the equivalent of a man's 
name. The Book of Revelations was written 
in Greek and each letter in the Greek alphabet 
represents a certain number. Now the Greek 
word for ^' Latin'' is **Lateinos," and this is 
the name of the legendary founder of the 
Kingdom of Latium, of which Rome afterwards 
became the capital, and is thus the name of a 
man. And the numerical equivalent of 
^^Lateinos" is six hundred and sixty-six; so that 
here we have an exact correspondence with the 
enigmatical description given in the text just 
quoted. To show how the Papal political system 
has fulfilled the description given of the power 

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which has this Imysterious number would re- 
quire an excursion into the realmsi of history 
far beyond the limits of this pamphlet, but from 
a careful investigation it will be found that the 
historical features correspond so closely with 
the prophetic descriptions as to show that the 
numerical correspondence of the name is not a 
matter of chance and that it leaves no room for 
doubt as to the political-religious power in- 
tended. 

Calculating, then, from the edict of Vitalian 
we find that the prophetic ** half -week*' of 1260 
years brings us to the year 1923 as one in which 
developments of marked importance may be 
expected in that chain of events which is to cul- 
minate in the establishment of the Divine King- 
dom upon earth. What may be the precise na- 
ture of those events I cannot of course tell ; but 
that the year in question is one of critical sig- 
nificance is indicated also by the fact that two 
other prophetic periods bring us to the same 
date. 

If we take the whole prophetic **week'* of 
2520 calendar years and reckon from the de- 
struction of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar in 
598 B.C. this brings us to the year 1923 as the 
termination of the * * Times of the Gentiles. ' ' 

Again, let us take as our starting point for 
the ** Times of the Gentiles'' the accession of 
Nabonassar, the first King of Babylon, which 

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as already observed is a marked epoch in chron- 
ology, and divide the whole period into two 
''half- weeks'' (''time, times and a half') of 
1260 years, and to each of these periods add the 
supplementary 75 years mentioned in the con- 
cluding verses of the Book of Daniel — that is 
to say, the Epact, or number of years which 
the sun gains on the moon during the whole 
2520 years, this gives us a total of 2670 years. 
Then if from 2670 years we deduct the 747 
years back from the Christian era to that of 
Nabonassar, this brings us yet once more to 
the year 1923. The year 1923 is thus of marked 
importance in the runnning-out of the "Times 
of the Gentiles,'' and the events now tran- 
spiring appear to indicate the commencement of 
that Time of Transition of which, at any rate 
in its more immediate developments, the year 
1923 appears to be the close. 

We have already seen that the full week of 
2520 years from the captivity era of Judah B.C. 
606 brings us to the present year 1914, and it 
is remarkable that two other calculations do the 
same. We find in Rev. xvii. 12 that the ten 
kings receive a dominion of "one hour" in 
company with the beast, during which they turn 
against the mystic Babylon, which from other 
passages they appear to have previously sup- 
ported, and at the end of the hour Babylon is 
finally destroyed. Now if we take literally the 

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statement that a thousand years is with the 
Lord as one day (II. Pet. iii. 12) and regard the 
seven days of Creation given in Genesis as 
typical of the work of preparation for the New 
Creation, then by analogy we may consider the 
entire period frojn the creation of Adam to the 
finished work as a great week of seven thousand 
years, of which the last thousand is to be a 
period of rest, a Sabbatical millenary. Now, 
by adding together the various periods given in 
the Bible, such as the ages of the patriarchs at 
the birth of their sons, length of reigns, and the 
like, and proceed by well-known historical dates 
from the point where the chronology traceable 
in the Bible terminates, we find that six thou- 
sand years from the creation of Adam bring us 
to the year 1873. Then we have to add **one 
hour*' on the same scale, namely one-twenty- 
fourth of a thousand years, which is forty-one 
years and eight months, and this brings us to 
the year 1914-15 as the time of the end.* 

Lastly, the same testimony is borne by the 
Great Pyramid, that inspired monument of the 
ages which Isaiah xix. 19 calls *^an altar to the 
Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt.'' It 
has long been recognised that the interior 
passages are laid down to a scale of time meas- 
urements of an inch to a year, just as in the 

* See Chart of Bible Chronology by P. M. Wagley, Flora, 
Illlnola, U.S.A. 

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prophetic writings we have a scale of day to a 
year. The Grand Gallery is usually conceded 
to represent the Christian dispensation, and at 
its coimmencement is situated what is known 
as the Opening to the Grotto, typical of the 
Resurrection of Christ. Now the length of the 
Grand Gallery is 1881-2 inches, and if this 
number of years is reckoned from the Resur- 
rection we must add to it the thirty-three years 
of Our Lord's earthly life, thus once again 
bringing us to the date 1914-15 as that of the 
Time of the End. 

I think that after perusing the foregoing the 
reader will see there is something more than 
mere coincidence in the way these prophecies 
work out by a definite scale, and in accordance 
with definite astronomical periods, to definite 
events which correspond with the prophetic 
description, and we can conceive of no other 
power capable of thus foretelling history over 
centuries but that of the Parent Spirit who 
created the sun and moon and made them the 
hands of a Divine chronometer to measure the 
times of the events leading up to the final con 
summation in the restitution of all things. In 
particular the reader cannot fail to notice the 
reiteration with which the prophetic periods 
point to the years 1914 to 1923, and the way in 
which the stupendous events that commenced in 
August of the present year (1914), affecting as 

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they must the whole civilised world, correspond 
quite literally with the description contained 
in the prophecies which indicate these dates. 
The correspondence is too exact to need com- 
ment, but the question arises. What are all 
these things leading to? The answer the Bible 
gives is that they are to terminate in the set 
ting up of that Divine Kingdom of righteous- 
ness and peace in which all the nations of the 
earth are to be blessed — the Kingdom of Christ, 
who first came in humility to offer a Divine 
Sacrifice for the sin of the whole world, and 
Who is to come again to reign in Millenial 
glory. 

In this pamphlet I have endeavoured to put 
some of the most salient points into the shortest 
possible form for readers unacquainted with 
the subject, but further study will show that 
the prophetic system here briefly sketched is of 
much greater extent and perlmeates the whole 
Bible. To any who wish for a more detailed 
knowledge of the subject I would recommend 
the book to which I am mainly indebted for the 
substance of these pages, ^^The Approaching 
End of the Age,'' by Grattan Gruinness, but as 
it was written some thirty-five years ago, J 
cannot say whether it is now obtainable. 

There is also yet another most important 
body of evidence coinciding with that of the 
prophetic periods. This is the history of the 

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Ten Tribes which never returned to Palestine 
after their deportation by the Assyrians. What 
became of them? The answer is that they are 
now the whole English-speaking race, who are 
therefore the literal heirs of the promises, and 
whose destiny it is, under Divine guidance, to 
be the visible instrumentality for spreading the 
coming Kingdom of Peace and the Brotherhood 
of Man. The Divine prediction regarding these 
so-called **Lost Tribes'* is not their destruction 
but their concealment under '* another name" 
until the due time for their recognition should 
arrive, and both prophecy and the course of 
events indicate that the time is now at hand, 
and that Judah shall also return with them. 
This gives us the key to all history, past, pres- 
ent, and future, and without it history is an 
unintelligible jumble, having no connecting 
thread and no discernible purpose. But this 
great subject is beyond the limits of the present 
pamphlet, so I will only point out the Three 
Signs by which this race is to be recognised for 
what it really is. These signs are : 

THE STONE, THE FLAG, and 
THE WOMAN. 

Literature on this last-named subject can be 
obtained from Messrs. Banks & Son, Racquet 
Court, Fleet Street, London. 



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